How To Read Castles

Released on by Malcolm Hislop
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  • How To Read Castles Book Detail

  • Author : Malcolm Hislop
  • Release Date : 2018-06-28
  • Publisher : Herbert Press
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  • Pages : 256
  • ISBN 13 : 9781912217687
  • File Size : 82,82 MB
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How To Read Castles by Malcolm Hislop PDF Summary

Book Description: How to Read Castles is a travel-sized primer that takes a strictly visual approach to castle architecture, building up the reader's vocabulary of castle types, styles, and materials, and showing how these aspects can be recognized across architectural features from the floor-plan and moat, to the towers and crenulations. Focusing on the period from the 10th to the 16th century, and crusading across the globe from a Welsh motte-and-bailey to a Japanese hirajiro, this is both architectural reference and visitor guide--showing the reader how to read the stories embedded in every castle's stones. Castles once dominated the landscape as seats of power and symbols of wealth and status, providing a means of control over borders, passes, routes and rivers. Armed with this book you will be able to unpick their histories and see how they shaped the land around them. From rugged coastline defences to soaring mountain fortresses, this book takes the reader on an international journey of discovery, exploring some of the most inspiring and impressive architecture history has ever seen.

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